Despite Recession, Lobbyists Kick Off Holiday Parties

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Lawmakers and Their Staff Invited for Open Bars, Free Food This Holiday Season.

One day after the U.S. officially acknowledged it was in a recession, it was party time in Washington for lawmakers and their staff, courtesy of the nation’s corporate lobbyists.

For weeks, invitations and event lists have been circulating on Capitol Hill, carrying promises of open bars and free food.

Defense contractors, energy companies and telecoms are all sponsoring parties this year, taking over restaurants and renting out museums in the expectation of crowds hundreds strong.

SOURCE: ABC NEWS

Our elected lawmakers are having a good old time at all their Holiday Parties while thousands of hard working tax payers are losing their jobs and no money to buy presents for their families. These rich congressmen are not worried about anything but self and don’t you forget that! Obama talked a good talk about having nothing to do with lobbyists while he and the other democrats are in bed with them. These congressmen are getting richer while the American people are suffering! Merry Christmas the Obama way, change you can count on! And change many of you voted for!

The redistribution of wealth through theft and robbery

“The redistribution of wealth through theft and robbery could dramatically increase and menaces to social stability will grow,” Zhou Tianyong, a researcher at the Central Party School in Beijing, wrote in the China Economic Times.

“This is extremely likely to create a reactive situation of mass-scale social turmoil,” he wrote.

His views do not reflect leadership policy but highlight worries in elite circles about the impact of the economic slowdown.

Rising unemployment and the economic slowdown could cause massive social turmoil in China, a leading scholar in the Communist Party has said.

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Isn’t redistribution of wealth what Barack Obama said that he wanted to do here? Where is Joe The Plumber when we need him?